Mediawiki-api November 2010

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Usage Terms and Conditions of Opensearch
by Nicolas Bregenzer 22 Nov '10

22 Nov '10

Hello, we are operating a search engine and would like to supplement our search suggestions with wikimedia open search: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=opensearch&search=<http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=opensearch&search=india> [TERM] are there any limits in volume or legally to what extend this service can be used ? beste regards

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an iPhone game of memory and enlightenment, powered by Wikipedia
by 3 Wiki 19 Nov '10

19 Nov '10

Hi MediaWiki people,I made an iPhone game called "3 Degrees of Wikipedia". It was just release 2 days ago and got pretty good reviews so far (#1 trivia & educational game in the App Store Canada, top 5 in US).Check it out. I think it could be interesting to a knowledge hungry person like you. If you are in US, feel free to email me for a promo code.http://www.threewiki.comCheers,Ivan

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best practice for rate limits for accessing the English Wikipedia with the API
by Raymond Yee 17 Nov '10

17 Nov '10

Hi everyone, I plan to be making a fair number of read access calls to the Wikipedia API over the next several months and would like to know what the best practices for efficient, fast access that doesn't hog resources. I've found that having a single thread that makes a call and waits for a response before making the next call has been extremely reliable (much more so than basically any other web API I've used before). What I'd like to do make my application multithreaded for reading from the Wikipedia and make simultaneous calls to the Wikipedia (since the speed of my application is limited by the rate at which I can read from the Wikipedia.) I have the following questions: 1) What limits should I observe in terms of number of calls I make per second and how many calls I should have going simultaneously? 2) How would I know when I'm accessing the API too quickly or too often? I read at http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Errors_and_warnings that there is ratelimited error message, but so far, I've not seen that error myself. If I don't get a ratelimited error, does that mean I'm doing ok with respect to being a good API citizen. 3) Even if I am requiring read access, should I identify myself explicitly to the API by logging in for the read access -- so that I can be contacted should there be a problem? 4) Does it make sense to try to obtain bot privileges (even for read only access)? My understanding is that bots get access to larger payload in some API calls. Note: since I'm looking at recent changes to the Wikipedia, downloading a data dump of the Wikipeida to work on doesn't help me. Thanks, -Raymond Yee (User:RaymondYee)

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Search Results Problem
by Prateek 02 Nov '10

02 Nov '10

Hello, Is there some issue going on with the search API. The returned results appear to be a bit off. For example http://www.mediawiki.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=search&srsearch=Country returns <?xml version="1.0"?> <api> <query> <searchinfo totalhits="10" suggestion="Count" /> <search> country_population 80000000 301 2040 country_population 75000000 ... " size="13242" wordcount="1760" timestamp="2010-08-15T13:43:24Z" /> country or city-resolution?) Image views : What's available from each hit: image name. thumbnail pixel width ... " size="2161" wordcount="311" timestamp="2010-01-03T08:04:51Z" /> <api> <query> <searchinfo totalhits="10" suggestion="Count" /> <search> country_population 80000000 301 2040 country_population 75000000 ... " size="13242" wordcount="1760" timestamp="2010-08-15T13:43:24Z" /> country or city-resolution?) Image views : What's available from each hit: image name. thumbnail pixel width ... " size="2161" wordcount="311" timestamp="2010-01-03T08:04:51Z" /> country of residence. How you plan to go about implementing the desired function. Any experience working with MediaWiki ... " size="1483" wordcount="206" timestamp="2010-04-09T18:31:35Z" /> Countries. Asian Business Round Table - http:// ... " size="138820" wordcount="19314" timestamp="2010-10-30T19:15:23Z" /> country information ... " size="11305" wordcount="1693" timestamp="2010-10-26T05:31:01Z" /> countries which have only intermittent network access. InstantCommons seeks to ... " size="6505" wordcount="985" timestamp="2010-09-22T08:38:28Z" /> countries forbidding logging of IPs, etc. So it should be disabled by default. Soxred93 00:35, 26 January 2009 ... " size="8676" wordcount="857" timestamp="2010-09-22T12:42:56Z" /> countries, albums by artist, interwikis for categories based on interwikis for ... " size="12337" wordcount="1677" timestamp="2010-03-12T12:14:19Z" /> countries, Novell helps customers manage, simplify, secure and integrate their technology ... " size="23008" wordcount="3174" timestamp="2010-10-21T16:40:06Z" /> </search> </query> </api>" snippet="Your real name and country of residence. How you plan to go about implementing the desired function. Any experience working with MediaWiki ... " size="1483" wordcount="206" timestamp="2010-04-09T18:31:35Z" /> Countries. Asian Business Round Table - http:// ... " size="138820" wordcount="19314" timestamp="2010-10-30T19:15:23Z" /> country information ... " size="11305" wordcount="1693" timestamp="2010-10-26T05:31:01Z" /> countries which have only intermittent network access. InstantCommons seeks to ... " size="6505" wordcount="985" timestamp="2010-09-22T08:38:28Z" /> countries forbidding logging of IPs, etc. So it should be disabled by default. Soxred93 00:35, 26 January 2009 ... " size="8676" wordcount="857" timestamp="2010-09-22T12:42:56Z" /> countries, albums by artist, interwikis for categories based on interwikis for ... " size="12337" wordcount="1677" timestamp="2010-03-12T12:14:19Z" /> countries, Novell helps customers manage, simplify, secure and integrate their technology ... " size="23008" wordcount="3174" timestamp="2010-10-21T16:40:06Z" /> </search> </query> </api> Thanks Prateek -- *Prateek Jain* *PhD Student, Research Assistant* *Kno.e.sis Center, Wright State University* *Dayton,OH 45435* *Web: http://wiki.knoesis.org/index.php/Prateek* *Email: prateek(a)knoesis.org* *Phone: (770) 406-6356*

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Fetching external links
by Christian Koncilia 02 Nov '10

02 Nov '10

Hi, I know how to retrieve a list of all external links from a wiki-page. However, I'm looking for a way to retrieve all external links which are listed under "External Links". For instance, I would like to fetch all "External Links" links from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PHP - which would be a list of 6 items ("Official website", "PHP", "Open Directory Project", ...) Thanks for your kind help Christian

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Result ranking of full text search
by Prateek 01 Nov '10

01 Nov '10

Hello, Is there any implicit/explicit ranking mechanism for the results obtained using API for full text search? example: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=search&srsearch=Institu… If possible, can some one throw some light on the ranking? Thanks, Best Regards Prateek -- Prateek Jain Research Assistant, Kno.e.sis Center Wright State University Fairborn,Ohio 45435 http://knoesis.wright.edu/students/prateek/

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Mediawiki-api November 2010